Chess960: Chess and Puzzles

Chess960: Chess and Puzzles lets you play standard chess, Chess960 and Duck Chess against the computer or with a friend on the same phone.

Train between games with mate and tactic puzzles, famous endgame studies and a PGN viewer for your own games.

What you can do

• Play against the computer or pass and play with a friend on one phone

• Choose a variant: standard chess, Chess960 or Duck Chess

• Solve mate and tactic puzzles, with a hint when you are stuck

• Practise famous endgame studies and tactical exercises

• Save your games, replay them and export them as PGN

• Import PGN games, study openings and set up your own positions

• Advanced: a text console for the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS), with guest login

• Set the difficulty, the engine search depth and its thinking time

• Change piece sets and board patterns, show coordinates, highlight the last move and use a dark theme

• Hear sounds on moves and captures, feel a vibration, and keep the screen awake during a match

• Use the app in 10 languages, including Arabic, German, French, Spanish and Japanese

Rules inside

The About & Rules screen explains the rules of chess, Duck Chess and Chess960. In Duck Chess a rubber duck blocks one square after every move, and in Chess960 the back-rank pieces start in a shuffled order.

Good to know

The app shows ads. An optional Chess Pro subscription removes the ads for paying users. The FICS text console needs an internet connection and shows only server text, without a board.

Set up the board, pick your variant and make your move.